Loving Your Enemy Is the Biggest 'Risk'

Updated March 24, 2003 12:01 am ET

I found Daniel Henninger's March 21 Wonder Land column compelling, especially the notion that America's rise to superpower status is rooted in a 500-year-old spirit of courage, freedom and collegiality. Even our ex-European ancestors, he writes, were marked by a willingness "to try anything that hadn't been tried before, and risk their lives and capital to make daily life . . . ever better."

It's true: Americans are risk-takers, in the best sense of the term. I believe this noble and enduring spirit is reflected in...